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How to make your own robot

 Guess what(don't actually guess)? This is really, really cool. If you get a balloon, ground coffee, and a vacuum, you could make your own gripping robot. First pour ground coffee into a balloon until it is completely filled. Then, blow the balloon up. not all of the way. Next, stretch the balloon hole around a vacuum . Finally,choose an object to practice on, like a piece of paper and put the balloon on it's edge. now turn the vacuum on. The balloon should cling on to the object and stick.
Explanation: Ground coffee is like water. It is like water because it's made up of small parts. Water takes the shape of a solid and so will this. When you fill it up with air it won't take the shape of an object, but if you use a vacuum it will because the vacuum will suck the air out and the balloon should cling onto an object.

The Cinefantastique Online

The Hobbit News

 Two days ago in The Cinefantastic Online, Tom Powers wrote that the Hobbit movie's production will stay in New Zealand like the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Not only that, but New Zealand's Parliament passed a law that said that actors and other film production personnel hired as independent contractors can not subsequently claim to be employees, preventing the workers from claiming additional rights. What does that mean? The actors unions decided to boycott the movie to get Peter Jackson and Warner Bros. to keep the production in NZ. They stopped boycotting last weak realizing that the studio was earnest. It took interventions and assurances by the prime minister (in article is misspelled) to get the movie to stay in NZ. In the end it stayed which in my opinion is good because all of the other movies were in NZ and the movie would have the same middle-earth effect.
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